Nanna's Crafty Corner

Monday, February 14, 2011

Hope everyone has a very special Valentines Day.
I have been busy making treat boxes for my grandson's 3rd grade class party.
I made 30 of these!
They are little book bag (back packs).
I got my inspiration from Split Caost Stampers blog.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

We found this bottle when cleaning out a crawl space under a house. (That's part of our job with our business)

It got tossed in the back of the truck, missed when we cleaned out the truck, put into the garage with the next bunch of stuff cleaned out of the truck, slipped into a box of stuff taken into the house to be sorted, put through the dishwasher by my 10 yo son, and found again by me!

Now any sane person would promptly throw it out! But, I felt sorry for it! I mean it went through a lot to survive. So I decided to see what I could do with it.

I glued ribbon around the bottle. Then I turned to clipart again and printed on cream cardstock. Cut the image and mat with my oval nesties and attached with glue dots.

Filled the bottle with sand. The final touch was a couple of flower stems from my stash in the basement.

I wanted a Pooh bathroom and was discouraged with the juvenile offerings commercially.
This is the perfect solution.

Monday, August 23, 2010

DD and I had a bunch of mats that neede re-sticking. We always thought the hardest part was cleaning and prepping your mats before re-sticking. Well we got to experimenting with oderless mineral spirits. And it worked like magic! Watch the video to see how QUICK and EASY it was!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

I was looking through my vacation photos and came across these. We were on vacation in Florida and DD got a call from her boss asking if we could stop by Maryland on our way home to do a job. Now mind you, we are from Illinois! (Like Maryland is on our way home)! DD said sure. (She is never one to turn down a job). Well while staying in Maryland DGS went to another floor in the hotel to get us Pepsi. On the way back to our floor he got stuck in the elevator. It took the fire department to get him out! When he finally got out of the elevator the firemen ask him "Are you the one stuck in the elevator"!!!!! DGS being a teenager replied "NO"!